On Thursday (March 14th), Qtum (QTUM) surged over 26% after the Singapore-based Qtum Foundation and London-based FinTech startup Zuex delivered some good news: Zuex, which calls itself “The World’s First Crypto Mobile Payment and Investment App”, would be listing “QTUM tokens in its digital payment wallet, to allow users to spend QTUM for all point-of-sale payments.”

On its website, Qtum is described as “a global project that aims to be the bridge between the Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, the real world and blockchain world” that is backed by “some of the most notable blockchain players, traditional Venture Capitalists, and executives from some of China’s largest technology companies.”

“A rarity in the blockchain world, Qtum is also backward compatible with Ethereum contracts as well as Bitcoin gateways and will remain backward compatible even after updates. This allows for easy platform adoption and a ‘plug and play’ methodology that leans upon what other technologies in the space have done well.”

“The Qtum (pronounced Quantum) blockchain is a public smart contract platform that combines aspects of both Bitcoin and Ethereum. The Qtum team chose Bitcoin (and its UTXO model of record-keeping) as the base of the protocol because of Bitcoin’s proven track record of security and stability. On top of this base, Qtum integrates the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) (and potentially other VMs in the future) in order to support a diverse decentralized application ecosystem.

QTUM is the native token of the Qtum blockchain, and acts as both gas for Qtum smart contracts and as a reward for securing the network through staking.”

As for Zeux, it says that it provides “a simpler way to pay, bank and invest by integrating all these services onto one place — the Zeux app,” leveraging “a long list of third-party partners to provide integrated investment products to its customers.”

Miguel Palencia, Chief Information Officer of QTUM Foundation, had this to say about the partnership with Zeux:

“We’re excited that Zeux has added QTUM to its app. This adds a tremendous amount of additional utility for our valued community who can now use QTUM for all point-of-sale payments with merchants that accept Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay. Zeux has created a seamless way for people to use crypto in their day-to-day lives without the friction of choosing from a select group of merchants who accept crypto directly.”

Here is the Qtum team announced the news on Twitter at 13:44 UTC today:

The QTUM price surged to an intraday high of $3.06 at 14:30 UTCwithin 45 minutes after the announcement, but it has slightly come down since then; at press time (17:50 UTC), QTUM is trading at $2.68, up over 24.07% in the past 24-hour period: